When should I upgrade

[Liam Proven]

On 1 May 2011 21:03, Soare Catalin <lolinux.soare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to ask for a recommendation on this subject.
>
> I have performed an upgrade on my laptop from 10.10 to 11.4 a few weeks ago,
> and, to be honest I did not like it at all. Unity lacked the customization I
> got used to ever since I started using Linux, and it still seems to still
> lack them (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
> Thing is that I removed it and done a fresh install of 10.10.
>
> So my question is:
> (I didn't know that LTS has a 2 years cicle so) for how long can I stay with
> 10.10?
> Or what would the alternatives be in this case? (I wouldn't upgrade too
> soon...)

Please bottom-post.

LTS releases "live" for 3y on the desktop and 5y on the server.

Ordinary releases "live" 18mth.

10.10 reaches end-of-life with 12.04, the next LTS release.
10.04, on the other hand, will live until 2013.

My recommendation is either to upgrade to each release, but leave it a
month or so for the early-adopters to find the bugs, or to stay on
LTS.

I always get impatient with LTS releases - after a year or so, I want
the new features and the new toys. So I upgrade and every 2 or 3
upgrades I wipe and reformat.

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